Whether you're a casual listener or a serious music student, here's the site for basic information about classical music. Created in cooperation with W.W. Norton & Company, it's built around Essential Classics, the series specially designed to introduce you to the best music of every period. All through the site you'll find almost 200 excerpts from Essential Classics. You'll also find: (a) Eras: Overviews of the six main periods in music history -- Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Twentieth Century, (b) Composers: Brief biographies of nearly 70 composers, which will...

Composer biographies.

Composer biographies on PBS's Great Performances web site.

How Music Works is a comprehensive suite of multimedia tutorials which explain music in clear, simple language you can relate to.Packed with 115 topics in nine tutorials, and illustrated with 360 diagrams and 750 demonstration sounds, the tutorials start with the very basics of music and advance to topics which are valuable even for professional musicians.Whatever musical instrument or style you are interested in, these tutorials will be an essential source of information and guidance for years to come.

This is an educational website, but you don't have to be in a school or university to use it. It takes as its model Kutiman's brilliant thru-you.com site, where he made seven new songs by remixing bits of video shared on YouTube. Included here for free are video tutorials which will show you how to create a basic remix just with the software that comes free on a Mac, or is available free on the internet. Windows users may be able to get the same results with Acid by Sony.

The SCAMPER technique uses a set of directed questions that can be used to help students develop creative compositional ideas.

Type-in a Web site URL and it scans the words, removes all the non musical letters, and makes "music" out of whatever's left

Karen Garrett was named teacher of the year by TI:ME and she has created an amazing resource on how to encorporate MIDI technology into the classroom. She has been director of instrumental music at Central Park School in Birmingham, AL since 1992, and in

EVERYONE CAN CREATE MUSICSelect 1 of 8 different Sound Patterns from the small Matrixes icons on the right.Use your mouse to draw notes on each 16 Step Matrix.For each Pattern, adjust Volume, Mute, Clear, or set Audio Pan from Left to Right.Click on the

Impromptu has been designed as a teaching tool to help you interrogate and develop your own musical intuitions. It is intended to be used in conjunction with the text Developing Musical Intuitions, and the accompanying music audio CD. Please remember that

jam2jam is an application that generates music that you can control while it plays. Even better, you can connect via a network with your friends who have jam2jam to jointly control the music. Jam just like a band, but without the need for complex instrume

DrumStepsDrumSteps is a great way to compose music. You don't need to know notation, you just need an imagination and best of all it's FREE.

The National Arts Centre (NAC) presents ArtsAlive.ca Music, a great place to discover the excitement of the performing arts! Learn all about orchestral music, the NAC Orchestra, its musicians and friends, great composers, conductors and much more!

Toy Symphony is an international music performance and education project led by composer and inventorTod Machover at the MIT Media Lab and Media Lab Europe. It strives primarily to introduce children to the creative music-making process in bold, new ways

SmartBoard music lesson plans.

The envl.net system provides a collection of free, web-based tools for generating a wide range of musical structures. Interfaces use simple web-based forms and selectors. Output is provided as standard, GM MIDI files. These files can easily be imported in

Mixcraft 4 is an affordable multi-track audio and MIDI recording studio that enables you to compose original music, record your band, create a podcast, or remix a song. Use it as a multi-track recorder or as a music loop remix program

HighC is a graphical music creation tool. It is a synthesizer, a sequencer and a mixer. Its goal is to make music composition as simple and direct as sketching.

Mario Paint Composer is a remake of the music system from the original Mario Paint for the Super NES. It is made by unFun Games. The game is completely free.

Exchanging Notes was an exchange of ideas between teachers and composers in 2002, designed to strengthen and investigate new strategies for the teaching of composition across the secondary music curriculum. The Exchanging Notes resource can be downloaded

Tuneblocks is an innovative group of musicians and computer software designers whose mission is to build computer-based and hands-on products that will help you develop your creative intuitions while having fun with music.

he SoundJunction website’s all about music. You can take music apart and find out how it works, create music yourself, find out how other people make music and how they perform it, you can find out about musical instruments, and look at the backgrounds to

Amadeus II is a very powerful sound editor for Macintosh. It runs on MacOS 9.2 and up, as well as natively on MacOS X.

This site is the online companion to my book, The Macintosh iLife '06, published by Peachpit Press and Avondale Media.

Updates, loops, and plug-ins for GarageBand.

The CD-Rom companion to O'Reilly's tutorial text for GarageBand.

Peachpit's tutorial text for iLife software suite.

This series of movies starts by taking you through the basics of using the GarageBand interface, and then shows you how to work with Apple Loops, Software Instruments, and Real Instruments.

O'Reilly's publisher website for their published GarageBand tutorial text.

Tutorials and advice for using GarageBand including links and listings of published tutorials.